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J. B. DAVIDS.

GAME BOARD. No. 497,909. Patented May 23, 1893.

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JOHN B. DAVIDS, OF NORTH DARTMOUTH, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO E. M. CHISHOLM DAVIDS, OF SAME PLACE.

GAME-BOARD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 497,909, dated May 23, 1893.

Application filed August 24. 1892. Serial No. 444,005. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

sisting of a shallow, oblong tray, having the elastic cushion 111, secured to the inside of the raised edge of the farther end, and extending along the sides, thereof; and provided with the spring impelled plunger 7c. The upper surface of the bottom of the tray, is provided with nine cavities, arranged in parallel rows, of three in each row; the center cavity of the center row, being numbered 10, and called the king hole. The other eight cavities are numbered 5, respectively. Around the king hole (Z, are arranged four pins, equidistant from the corner cavities, and the central cavity or king hole.

9, g, are two balls numbered 5, respectively, which are spotted, or placed in position, in

slight depressions in the surface of the board,

1', is an incline cut in the surface of the board, so that when the king ball is placed against the plunger, it will roll back against it when the plunger is drawn backward. The spaces on each side of the line of movement of the plunger, are forfeit spaces, and are numbered 10, respectively.

The game may be played by two or more persons; the object being to propel the king ball h, with such a force as to strike the two object balls 9, g, and retain sufficient n1omentum, to carry it into the king hole d, while the two object balls, are caused to strike the cushion m, and rebound into some of the other cavities. This game, I call Poeketelle.

' I claim- In a game apparatus, the combination of the shallow, oblong tray A, having one end provided with the ball propelling device It, and forfeit spaces on each side thereof, and having one end and a portion of its sides provided with the elastic cushions m, and having its surface provided with nine cavities, arranged in rows of three each and near one end, with battle-pins e, arranged around the central cavity d, and equidistant therefrom,

and provided with the incline 'i; with balls g,

g, and h, adapted to lodge in the aforesaid cavities, all as shown and described.

JOHN B. DAVIDS. Witnesses:

JAMES C. HITCH, HENRY W. MASON. 

